I've recently seen a lot of ads for this You Digivision service with a picture of a Scientific Atlanta Z60 DVB(digital video broadcaster) being provided by them.
I have one of these such boxes provided by my cable operator to replace my Zenega DVB. I'd just like to share my experience with this Z60 DVB.
The Z60 is manufactured by Scientific Atlanta which is associated with Cisco. One would imagine that a Cisco backed company would produce a decent set top box but I've found the Z60 extremely difficult to use and downright disgusting most of the time.
I used to crib about my Zenega DVB but the Z60 has managed to take user unfriendliness to a new level. For starters, channels are not selectable with the 0-9 keys on the remote. They also can't be changed with the 4 direction circular pad. Setting favourites is very difficult and unlike my old DVB, a menu of available channels does not exist.
A user has no way of knowing where a particular channel is and has to wade through a bunch of channels whose positions are decided by your cable wallah. In this day and age of flexibility, the Z60 behaves like something from the distant past. Hell, there was more flexibility on an 80's TV remote.
The only way to alleviate one's suffering to some extent is to create a favourites list and remember the channel positions from say 1-20(remember you still can't just simply use the 0-9 keys which makes me wonder why they were provided in the first place :no: ). Even that is very difficult to do.
I don't have the time to do a complete review of the device but I just want to warn people considering this new "You Digivision" service. I would expect this kind of set from some cheap chinese company but not from a Cisco affiliated company :no: .
Seems like consumer friendliness is just not considered by cable operators these days. Right now, I am the only one using this box whenever I can and my mom has just thrown the remote in a corner as she can't figure out how to use it. I would suggest you spare your family the trauma of using such a device.
I have one of these such boxes provided by my cable operator to replace my Zenega DVB. I'd just like to share my experience with this Z60 DVB.
The Z60 is manufactured by Scientific Atlanta which is associated with Cisco. One would imagine that a Cisco backed company would produce a decent set top box but I've found the Z60 extremely difficult to use and downright disgusting most of the time.
I used to crib about my Zenega DVB but the Z60 has managed to take user unfriendliness to a new level. For starters, channels are not selectable with the 0-9 keys on the remote. They also can't be changed with the 4 direction circular pad. Setting favourites is very difficult and unlike my old DVB, a menu of available channels does not exist.
A user has no way of knowing where a particular channel is and has to wade through a bunch of channels whose positions are decided by your cable wallah. In this day and age of flexibility, the Z60 behaves like something from the distant past. Hell, there was more flexibility on an 80's TV remote.
The only way to alleviate one's suffering to some extent is to create a favourites list and remember the channel positions from say 1-20(remember you still can't just simply use the 0-9 keys which makes me wonder why they were provided in the first place :no: ). Even that is very difficult to do.
I don't have the time to do a complete review of the device but I just want to warn people considering this new "You Digivision" service. I would expect this kind of set from some cheap chinese company but not from a Cisco affiliated company :no: .
Seems like consumer friendliness is just not considered by cable operators these days. Right now, I am the only one using this box whenever I can and my mom has just thrown the remote in a corner as she can't figure out how to use it. I would suggest you spare your family the trauma of using such a device.
